14^ REMARKABLE FOSSIL DEPOSITS NEAR BRISTOL. 



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No. I.-SINGULAR DEPOSIT OF THE FOSSIL BONES OF THE 

 WATER VOLE (ARVIGOLA AMPHIBIA.) 



BY W. W. STODDART, F.G.S., F.C.S. 



DURING an excursion made a short time since, the men~;bers 

 of the geological section went to examine a very remark- 

 able quarry of carboniferous limestone, about 6 miles S. W. of 

 Frome, near the little village of Hollwell. It is the same locality 

 so famous for the discovery of Rhaetic remains by C. Moore, Esq., 

 of Bath, and it is through the kindness of that gentleman that my 

 attention was first called to the deposit of bones now under our 

 notice. 



The Quarry, like many in the neighbourhood, is very remark- 

 able for what Mr. Moore very appropriately calls "Abnormal 

 deposits." The carboniferous limestone is here divided by several 

 metalliferous dykes, and fissures filled up with bones of much 

 later times. 



One of these crevices has been described by Mr. Moore in the 

 Journal of the Geological Society as containing many thousands 



